Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like ichor; thin; watery; serous.
  • Full of ichor; ichorose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling or relating to ichor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies

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Examples

  • And you know what that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart is uniquely attuned to?

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • Well, why not, if it's going to give that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart a tiny, ichorous lizard orgasm?

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • And yes, the tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart wants nothing more than for someone to extract a pound of flesh from Goldman Sachs.

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • Well, why not, if it's going to give that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart a tiny, ichorous lizard orgasm?

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • And you know what that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart is uniquely attuned to?

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • And yes, the tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart wants nothing more than for someone to extract a pound of flesh from Goldman Sachs.

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • When this happens, a fistula is formed, having an ichorous discharge, and faeces pass by it, with flatus and much and abomination.

    On Fistulae 2007

  • The wound then must necessarily become discolored and its lips everted, the discharge will be ichorous and without pus, and the bones, which should not have got into a state of necrosis, exfoliate; and the wound gets into a throbbing and inflamed condition.

    On Fractures 2007

  • When a watery and ichorous discharge flows from the rectum, wash it out with burnt lees of wine, and water from myrtle, and having dried maiden-hair, pound and sift it, and apply as a cataplasm.

    On Fistulae 2007

  • Many parts of his hands on the inside were chapped, and on the middle joint of the thumb of the right hand there was a small phagedenic ulcer, about the size of a large pea, discharging an ichorous fluid.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

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